Web 2.O Included in the Classroom

My classmates and I have been working with 2.O tools in our last lessons. We have been inroduced to plenty of new tools that I didn't know of until that moment. For example, Voki, where you can create an avatar and put your voice in it by recording yourself.

From my point of view, if  Web 2.O are included in our future lessons as teachers, it would make them more engaging and entertaining.

What Web 2.O do is to allow visitors to "speak back" to the website and at the same time the visitors can have the chance to share with other visitors any generating content through social media such as Facebook, Twitter or any other community Web 2.O tool.

While surfing the net, I came across a tool called Smilebox, I found it quite interesting since it allows visitors to create collages or cards. I thought that it would be a useful tool to be implemented to create Halloween cards since this celebration is getting closer.

You have plenty of models to choose from. Besides, I believe your students would love to work with this motivating tool. Let their creativity and imagination fly!

Another important thing is that it is not necessary for you to download the program to make your creation, you can give it a try if you want online and share it on Social Media.

Let me tell you that this subject ECO II is opening my mind and helping me to innovate and start thinking about my future life as an educator.

SELF-ASSESSMENT OF MY LEARNING JOURNAL

ASSESSMENT OF MY LEARNING JOURNAL

After reading the instructions Letizia has given to us I started to analyse my blog thoroughly. I began posting the 24^th of April and since then, I tried to update it as frequent as possible.  There was only a whole month in which I did not post anything. As you will see, I have posted six entries until today. As far as I am concerned, I have always tried to use my learning journal to reflect upon what we were dealing with in our lessons. To be honest, I was not used to blogs, not even in my life outside the teacher training college. I have learnt how to search for information that can be considered taken from a reliable source. It was extremely useful for me to learn how to analyse website and from that moment that Letizia taught us the components of digital literacy I tried to apply it to search for information not only for this subject to post entries in my blog, but also to investigate for some other subjects that I have at the teacher training college.

I remember that whenever I decided to post an entry, I always tried to devote a lot of time and effort on looking for reliable information so as to create my own reflection on my readings. I also wrote and edited most of the entries before posting. I re-read them before posting so as to be sure of each of the topics that I investigated together with my opinion. As regards commenting on other blogs, I believe that that was my weakness; I commented on two blogs but I would have preferred to comment more. I just got in some of my mates’ blogs and, as I am not quite organized, I forgot to write a comment.

So as to finish with this self-evaluation, I would like to share with you that this assignment gave me the opportunity to analyse all my process in my learning journal and to see my strengths and weaknesses. To reflect on all this, it helped me to understand what is that I have to improve on if I want to include a learning journal in future lessons. 

I am going to include this picture below because it clearly shows the real use of learning journals in school lessons. Hope you all like this. 

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